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Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Distance
2,428 light-years
Redshift
z = 0.012601387390803076
Coordinates
RA 157.4877° · Dec -35.2244°
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Key facts

Constellation
Antlia
Right ascension
10 29 57.0404
Declination
−35 ° 13 ′ 27.833 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
3,754 ± 33 km/s
Distance
103 Mly (31.7 Mpc )
Type
SB(r)0-a
Size
~98,900 ly (30.31 kpc ) (estimated)
Apparent size v
2.45′ × 0.8′

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 3269 is a barred spiral or lenticular galaxy in the constellation Antlia. It is a member of the Antlia Cluster, which lies about 40.7 megaparsecs (132.7 million light-years) away. It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 1 May 1834.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3269” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.